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Those of you who loved Bioware’s action-RPG Mass Effect and DICE’s newest installment to the Battlefield series Bad Company will be happy with the news that turned up today. In a recent financial earnings call EA CEO John Riccitiello divulged that Mass Effect 2 would make it’s debut on “multiple consoles” and that there is a sequel to Battlefield: Bad Company in the pipes for Q4 of fiscal 2010 (January-March 2010). This is all the information that is known at the present time, but stay tuned for more on these games.

Conquest was promised to be added in to BF:BC by DICE a bit before launch and the time is now upon us. Check out the newest trailer featuring "revamped combat zones, lighting and weather effects." Conquest has released for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 this morning for the high price of FREE. "The content will include the traditional Battlefield multiplayer game mode, Conquest. Conquest focuses on the capture and control of flags; once a team captures a control point, its members can re-spawn in the area. When a team loses control of all their flags or control points, they cannot re-spawn." Here is Major Nelson's rundown: "ESRB: T (Teen) ALCOHOL REFERENCE,STRONG LANGUAGE,VIOLENCE] An old friend returns! The Conquest game mode was hugely popular in previous Battlefield games and now sees its addition to DICE’s latest blockbuster. Download the Conquest Pack for Battlefield: Bad Company for free and battle it out on four modified maps from the core game...

A story posted on the Battlefield: Bad Company site states that DICE is in fact looking at community feedback about some of the big issues in Bad Company. The story talks about the addition of conquest mode, along with the compatible versions of the maps, being in Microsoft certification stage as well as some of the issues that have come up in the week following the game's release being looked in to. Currently there is a short list of issues DICE plans to look into after conquest is released, but it offers some big fixes: * Clan support/private rooms/team chat * Auto balancing on servers * Continued support against stats exploits * VOIP issue on PS3 (working with Sony on this) * Squads might be split up when joining a server as a squad. This is due to team balancing in the games that are being joined, and usually resolves itself in round 2. There may be a few more issues looked in to (why can't you pull your gun/knife up right away after sprinting?) but it is good to see the ...

UPDATE: Xbox 360 Fanboy reports you will be able to take screenshots in Bad Company. They have a picture of they controller layout. Today EA shed light on the mulitplayer beta for Battlefield Bad Company as well as released a trailer of the mulitplayer. Trailer: Full press release: " EA DICE Announces Multiplayer BETA Program for Battlefield: Bad Company Shipping June 2008 03.20.08 REDWOOD CITY, Calif. ? March 20, 2008 ? EA DICE, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced the multiplayer beta test for Battlefield: Bad Company™ on the Xbox 360® video game system from Microsoft. IGN Founders' Club and IGN Insider will offer keys to members and the public in North America and the UK to participate in the multiplayer beta test starting March 25 provided by IGN's popular game download site FilePlanet (http://www.fileplanet.com). In addition, keys will also be available through IGN Entertainment's gaming Web sites including IGN.com, GameSpy, Tea...

Some details have emerged about a beta for DICE's next game in the Battlefield series, Bad Company. The beta features keys from sites associated with IGN. Details inside... UPDATE: I just got off of the phone with Gamestop and they said customers who have their e-mail registered in the system and have pre-ordered Bad Company will be sent a beta code. Head to Gamestop soon and update your e-mail adresses! Here is the official release (as shown on Gaming Shogun ): " Official Release: DICE, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced the multiplayer beta test for Battlefield: Bad Company on the Xbox 360™ video game system from Microsoft®. IGN Founders’ Club and IGN Insider will offer keys to members and the public in North America and Europe to participate in the multiplayer beta test starting March 17 provided by IGN’s popular game download site FilePlanet (http://www.fileplanet.com). In addition, keys will also be available through IGN Entertainment’s gamin...

DICE's next foray into the war genre is coming along well, from the looks of many GDC videos. Battlefield: Bad Company struts nearly fully destructible environments and that top notch Battlefield gameplay. Hit the jump for the videos. The release date for B:BC has been delayed a few times, and is now listed as June 2008. Will this be the game to knock CoD4 from its perch?